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admin2 August 9, 2011 No Comments on Who invented the Pencil? In the year 1795, a man named N. J. Conte invented pencils. These pencils were prepared of graphite that had been ground with certain types of muds, pressed into sticks, and fired in a furnace. This technique is the basis for the fabrication of all types of pencils available today.
Today pencils are numbered and/or lettered to tell us how hard the lead is. The higher the number, the harder the lead, and the lighter the markings. However, it wasn't always this way. The earliest pencils were made simply from filling a wood shaft with raw graphite. The hardness of the graphite would differ depending on the quality of the graphite, thus it was different depending on where the pencil was made. The current style of making pencils was developed in 1794 by Nicolas-Jacques Cont (1755-1805).